You Have a Few Extra Days to Enter the SparkRecipes Un-Chained Recipe Contest

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The contest is easy: Pick a favorite unhealthy food from a chain restaurant (fast food or casual dining), and make it over, using healthy ingredients.

We've already received plenty of great entries, so you can start making and voting on your favorites now.

Still haven't made up your mind? You've got plenty of time left. We've extended the deadline to enter!

You have until midnight on Nov. 2 to enter.

And what will you win?

If you're one of the 10 semifinalists, you'll get $25 to spend on SparkPeople merchandise in the SparkPeoplestore.

Two lucky winners (one each in fast food and casual dining) will get a Vita-Mix 5200 blender, worth $450.

Vita-Mix blenders are amazing. We have one in the SparkPeople office. This blender crushes ice, frozen fruit and pretty much anything else you throw in it! Trust me when I say you want to win this blender.

Don't miss your chance to enter. Below is the timeline for the contest! Monday, Nov. 2: deadline to enter recipesNov. 2-7: SparkPeople chooses the top 10 recipes. Nov. 9-13: SparkPeople's taste panel will test the top 10 recipes. Nov. 2-13: Members will vote on their favorite recipes. Friday, Nov. 20: Winners will be announced on dailySpark and the SparkRecipes homepage!

So why haven't you entered? Get out there and get cooking! Are you going to enter the contest? Have questions? Ask them in the comments below. I'll be happy to answer them!

I love the idea of this contest but the only recipe I can come up with in a hurry is not from a restaurant but from my own idea.Actually I love mexican food so I adapted this recipe from my own needs.Don't know how to enter this one so maybe there will be another contest that I can enter.

It's a great idea but I think I've come in a bit late. I hope you have another one like this though. It would be a good challenge to see how we, regular people, can make dining out food taste just as good but with fewer calories! Great idea!

Well. I'm not contributing because I am a vegetarian and I really don't go to a lot of chain restaurants because of that. I have a lot of great recipes I've made up myself, but most chaing restaurants I don;t even know what they serve.

I love to see the recipes everyone is posting...I never win so don't think I'll enter. I just bake a splenda brownie homemade today...haven't tasted it yet...shame on me...but it I like it and I can find my way back here I can enter it...ok

I love, love, LOVE this idea/contest, but I don't feel it's enough time. If the deadline were say, November 15th, that would give me time to A.) Pick out a food item/dish and B.) Experiment with it until I found the right ingredients/combination. But I think that less than a week isn't enough time.